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The Merman's Children

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I first read this book back when I was in high school (year isn't important), and I fell in love with Poul Andersen instantly. The story is a bit sad, as it's about the end of the sea kingdom, but it's a good sort of sadness. I think it really spoke to me because it was about the ending of one thing, but the beginning of another, and that's what graduating high school is about as well. Definitely a good story for someon in a transition period.

In the waning years of the Middle Ages, before Christendom had completely scoured the world of magic, both Faery and Man lived on Europe's shores. This is the story of those last days: of the halfling children of the Liri king, who were of both realms but chose the one we call the other; of how they schemed and fought for survival, hounded from the Baltic to the ice caves of Greenland to the Mediterranean coast; of how they loved and how they died.